There are things that have stuck with people from the beginning of the pandemic when we didn’t know much, and science & clinical information on covid was new, but we need to move with the times.
Tag: pandemic
Failures of public health in the pandemic reveal hospital infection control weaknesses.
Hospitals could certainly walk and chew gum at the same time when it comes to infection control given the right incentives and management.
Donald Trump has repeatedly wrong economic advisor Kevin Hassett working on bird flu.
Kevin Hassett is an economist with a history of being way wrong. At a press briefing, the Trump administration spokesperson Karoline Leavitt explicitly blamed the egg prices on the Biden administration’s Department of Agriculture quote “directing the mass killing of 100 million chickens.” Of course this was because of avian influenza and the threat posed […]
Bizarre RFKJR confirmation hearing.
RFKJr is a terrible anti-vaxxer. But there are so many other problems as well with him taking over the entirety of the federal healthcare in the US. The threat can’t be overstated.
Childhood milestone pandemic misinformation zombie.
There’s a need to resist tantalizing stories that are not true and may actually be harmful, no matter how relatable and true the narrative may seem initially.
Trump administration hides critical health and safety information from the public.
Why is the Trump administration locking down public safety information from the federal health agencies?
Trump quits the US from WHO like he’s cancelling his country club membership.
Membership in the WHO isn’t like giving to some sketch non-profit charity in order to get tax favour.
Butts in seats downtown for “The Economy” (aka commercial real estate & fossil fuel)
RTO GTFO. The future of our civilization depends on maximizing remote options wherever possible.
What to expect by what we already had in a Trump admin CDC.
I think a lot of people have memory holed just how bad the Trump administration was even before the pandemic.
David Lynch deserved better public health, just as we all do.
The lack of strong public health and remote options robbed the rest of us of David Lynch’s last years.
Hospitals respond to disease outbreaks instead of preventing them.
An “uptick” is what they call it when half the staff at any job has been out sick during the last month or so.
Legislation against municipal mask bans introduced by President pro tempore of the Massachusetts Senate.
Massachusetts state Senator Will Brownsberger, Democrat from Boston, introduced a bill that would prohibit municipalities and boards of health from enacting mask bans that include banning “protective or medical use” of wearing masks in public.
Anti-mandate IS anti-vax, once more, this time with feeling.
And, in fact, being against public health mitigation efforts at all is actually anti-vax because NPIs (Non-pharmaceutical Interventions) are actually needed to support the vaccines.
Bird flu ought to be taken seriously.
“Without immediate nationwide livestock testing and isolation, expanded wastewater surveillance, and rapid vaccine distribution to at-risk populations, the virus risks mutating into a form capable of sustained human transmission—repeating the catastrophic delays of COVID-19.”
Jay Bhattacharya is unqualified to lead the NIH — still promoting bogus covid cures in 2024
This person must not be installed in a position where he will jeopardize the health of Americans with his fringe pseudoscience ideas.
Ohio wants to force doctors to give quack cure to kids with covid.
The knock on effects of this would probably be many and very problematic.
FBI hopeful Kash Patel promoted misinfo fueled covid product.
The marketing claim promoting this quacky covid product is that it can “reverse” the effects of covid vaccines is based on misinformation claiming wrongly that the vaccines are giving people some type of damage based on things that don’t even make sense.
Right-wing voices intent on spreading bird flu & misinformation.
Various right-wing covid minimizers are pushing all sorts of misleading things about the very real threats of H5N1.
“Uptick” is what they call it when half the staff has been out sick at every job in the past few weeks.
Several Illinois hospitals requiring masks as respiratory infections climb A mask requirement is in effect at area hospitals, including Rush University Medical Center, Rush Copley Medical Center and Rush Oak Park Hospital. By NBC Chicago Staff and NBC News • Published December 30, 2024 • Updated on December 30, 2024 at 4:55 pm Multiple Illinois health […]
